# Clinton v Trump - The Stretch Run Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277 "2016-09-30T11:21:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/523 "2016-10-07T21:39:40Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > If he even hints about bringing up Bill Clinton’s indiscretions at the Town Meeting now, Hillary’s got him by his Rice Crispies. I think she could do this whether he brings it up or not – she’s not the one who cheated. Shit, she’s a betrayed spouse. I think she should do it just to point out how utterly demeaning he is. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/524 "2016-10-07T21:40:01Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > And this, my friends, I think is going to be the final nail in the coffin – or perhaps the extra nail for good measure. > > But this is one that won’t go away – the media will be chewing on these salacious details all weekend long. Even better, it’s right before the town hall. LOL! He basically confesses to being an adulterer, in addition to the raunchy and disgusting manner he refers to women. > > And it goes without saying that this will almost certainly end up in attack ads – or is it so disgusting that it could be banned on grounds of being pornographic? > > I want to see how Bible-loving evangelicals spin this one. This makes me suspect that there really IS a God. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/525 "2016-10-07T21:44:05Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Do I have this right? Trump made a deliberate play for Nevadans votes by emphasizing that he knew how they liked their state-name pronounced (already a rather a silly diversion … especially with the “[mispronunciation] happneed to a friend of mine he was killed” :eek: ) > … _ **But then mispronounced the name of the state?** _ :smack: > > When _Trump Campaign 2016_ is made into a based-on-fact movie who will play the title role? John Belushi might have done a good job. Who else? We don’t need another suggestion. CGI Belushi. Get Jess Harnell to loop in any lines that you can’t find in Belushi’s repertoire. ---
**Author:** ![dasmoocher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dbc845/32.png) [@dasmoocher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dasmoocher)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/526 "2016-10-07T21:45:38Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Trump caught in a [hot mic in 2005](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html) making _extremely_ lewd comments about women and about things he’s done to women. > > This is not just mild banter – check out the article and the audio. > [@Bayard](#): > > Remember the Central Park 5? Five teens were convicted of raping a woman in New York’s Central Park in 1989 and were later exonerated when DNA evidence proved another man committed the crime alone. > > Donald Trump still thinks the five were guilty. I guess because he’s never wrong and people are never coerced or tricked into confessions. > > [Donald Trump Still Thinks The Central Park Five Are Guilty (They Aren't) | HuffPost Latest News](http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57f7ceafe4b0e655eab3c002) > > [http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/06/politics/reality-check-donald-trump-central-park-5/](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/06/politics/reality-check-donald-trump-central-park-5/) No one has more respect for women and minorities than Trump! Tremendous respect! So true! Yuuuge respect! Like his hands! He loves them so much he wants to successfully fuck all of them! But only the attractive ones; and not Rosie O’Donnell! I know this from an extremely credible source! The best source ever! You would not believe the amount of respect Trump has! Believe me! So sad about Bernie Sanders… Trump loves all women and minorities! Mark my words! It’s not his fault that every woman in the universe wants to sleep with him! He’s the victim of this vast left-wing microphone conspiracy. So true, so true. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/527 "2016-10-07T21:46:45Z")
90% chance this hot mic thing was something investigators working for the Clinton campaign dug up months ago and saved for an opportune moment. Just like Alicia Machado. And this won’t be the end. There will be another one next week, and the week after, and the week after. There will be a new thing from Trump’s past leaked every week or even every few days until election day, I predict. ---
**Author:** ![computergeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e56c9b/32.png) [@computergeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/computergeek)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/528 "2016-10-07T21:59:57Z")
> [@Ambrosio\_Spinola](#): > > I like how he tries to spin it as just locker-room conversation and claims that Bill Clinton said worse things to him while they were playing golf. Even if it’s true that’s still a pretty lame excuse, and why would he want to remind his voters that he’s golfing buds with his opponent’s spouse anyway? Trying to pick up a married woman by going furniture store shopping was so left-field in this morass of sexual talk that it was pretty hilarious ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/529 "2016-10-07T22:01:53Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > 90% chance this hot mic thing was something investigators working for the Clinton campaign dug up months ago and saved for an opportune moment. Just like Alicia Machado. > > And this won’t be the end. There will be another one next week, and the week after, and the week after. There will be a new thing from Trump’s past leaked every week or even every few days until election day, I predict. Agreed – there’s no way they didn’t know about this. I also suspect someone in the campaign tipped somebody associated with Trump that this was coming and that he probably ought to shut his pie-hole about Bill’s affairs. Paul Begala said a long time ago actually made it a point to tell some of his CNN colleagues a few months ago that the Clinton campaign and Democrats had done their research on Trump, and that his GOP opponents had not. The Clintons had time to see Trump coming, which the GOP opposition did not. The timing couldn’t be worse for Republicans who only within the past week or two decided to finally throw their support behind Trump. This particular line of attack is something that could not only hurt Trump but the GOP as a whole. It’s the party of creeps as far as I’m concerned. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/530 "2016-10-07T22:12:54Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > 90% chance this hot mic thing was something investigators working for the Clinton campaign dug up months ago and saved for an opportune moment. Just like Alicia Machado. > > And this won’t be the end. There will be another one next week, and the week after, and the week after. There will be a new thing from Trump’s past leaked every week or even every few days until election day, I predict. I said months ago that Trump does not just have skeletons in a closet- he has a whole freaking graveyard in his mansion. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/531 "2016-10-07T22:18:17Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > And it goes without saying that this will almost certainly end up in attack ads – or is it so disgusting that it could be banned on grounds of being pornographic? > > I want to see how Bible-loving evangelicals spin this one. Oh, not a problem for them. “Trump has found God, and has asked him for forgiveness. It’s a personal matter. Stop being so mean to poor, poor Christian Mr. Trump. You are so mean to good Christians like Mr. Trump.” [- But you might ask, what about when Trump said:](http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-on-god-i-dont-like-to-have-to-ask-for-forgiveness-2016-1) > [@](#): > > Late last year, Trump told Republican pollster and focus-group guru Frank Luntz that when the real-estate mogul has done something wrong, he tries to correct his error without getting God involved. > > “I am not sure I have,” Trump said when asked if he’d ever asked God for forgiveness. “I just go on and try to do a better job from there. I don’t think so,” he said. “I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” “Oh, he never said that. Nope, nope, mainstream media, liars, Hillary is a liar, gonna make that wall 10 feet higher.” ---
**Author:** ![AnalogSignal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/analogsignal/32/1085_2.png) [@AnalogSignal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AnalogSignal)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/532 "2016-10-07T22:20:11Z")
Hillary talks about women’s issues but she doesn’t grab them by the pussy. Trump has a more effective, **hands on** approach. Making Pussy Grabbing Great Again! ---
**Author:** ![leftfield6](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leftfield6/32/18780_2.png) [@leftfield6](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leftfield6)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/533 "2016-10-07T22:24:52Z")
> [@AnalogSignal](#): > > Hillary talks about women’s issues but she doesn’t grab them by the pussy. Trump has a more effective, **hands on** approach. Making Pussy Grabbing Great Again! How much grabbing can he really even do, what with those tiny tiny hands? Does anyone have a pic of Donald holding a cat? There is a meme waiting to be made right there. [Closest I could find.](http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/150904201041-putin-holds-a-cat-super-169.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/534 "2016-10-07T22:30:01Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > The timing couldn’t be worse for Republicans who only within the past week or two decided to finally throw their support behind Trump. This particular line of attack is something that could not only hurt Trump but the GOP as a whole. It’s the party of creeps as far as I’m concerned. Yeah. I had noted that there was a dearth of Republicans running from Trump when he looked like he was catching up, as they got scared of being frozen out of a Trump administration. This might be very good for the Senate races where the candidates will have to decide whether to run again or not. If Trump blows it again on Sunday, it will be interesting to see what they do. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8baadc/32.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/535 "2016-10-07T22:33:07Z")
If you tune in to CNN, you can listen to Corey Lewendowski spinning this issue so hard that I’m surprised he hasn’t fallen over. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/536 "2016-10-07T22:34:57Z")
Wow, It appears even his close staff “hate” Trump world. The video in which Trump talks about women like a drunken sailor on shore leave. (NSFW audio link) He really screwed this one up. [http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-women-vulgar/index.html?adkey=bn](http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/07/politics/donald-trump-women-vulgar/index.html?adkey=bn) The video has graphic audio content. Definitely NSFW if you don’t have headphones. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/537 "2016-10-07T22:34:58Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > Trump caught in a [hot mic in 2005](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html) making _extremely_ lewd comments about women and about things he’s done to women. > > This is not just mild banter – check out the article and the audio. I actually think his “apology” makes this whole thing even worse. For one - it was a non-apology “apology”. “I’m sorry if anyone was offended”. Good God, if you look up “lame-ass pathetic apology designed to piss people off” this is what you see. Also, his explanation boiled down to “some other guy did it too, Mom!” and “boys will be boys, amiright?” Jesus Christ, what a sad little child of a man. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/538 "2016-10-07T22:36:35Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole](#): > > If you tune in to CNN, you can listen to Corey Lewendowski spinning this issue so hard that I’m surprised he hasn’t fallen over. Perhaps he’s just [twirling towards freedom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCh9sk-9l4). ---
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/539 "2016-10-07T22:42:46Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Also, his explanation boiled down to “some other guy did it too, Mom!” and “boys will be boys, amiright?” Yeah, I made the mistake of reading some Facebook comments. One Trump supporter said it was no different than what every heterosexual man on the planet would say. If that’s true then I just became a lesbian. ---
**Author:** ![Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_blistering_barnacle/32/3386_2.png) [@Blue\_Blistering\_Barnacle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blue_Blistering_Barnacle)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/540 "2016-10-07T22:43:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > We don’t need another suggestion. CGI Belushi. Get Jess Harnell to loop in any lines that you can’t find in Belushi’s repertoire. My votes for Zap Brannigan. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/541 "2016-10-07T22:46:02Z")
If I were Clinton, I’d have to budget fifteen minutes out of every day for maniacal laughter. Just pure schadenfreude, and revelry therein. "See? SEE? You’ve had me in the cross-hairs so long I’m squeaky fucking clean! You’ve never found a goddamned thing to use against me and you never will. But you, you dumb jackasses, you ran a guy who’s never faced a consequence in his life. He has no fucking idea how to keep his nose clean. He’s never had to! And now, anyone with a single fucking connection can find enough on him to run a goddamned hit parade every single week from now until election eve! “I’m [Simo Häyhä](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4) in a turkey ranch, and it’s Thanksgiving, motherfuckers!” (In retrospect, Hillary sounds a lot like my mom.) ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2016, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277/542 "2016-10-07T22:46:17Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > Yeah, I made the mistake of reading some Facebook comments. One Trump supporter said it was no different than what every heterosexual man on the planet would say. If that’s true then I just became a lesbian. I’ve been a heterosexual man a long time. I’ve never said anything like that to anyone. (and I’ve had my share of moral failings, I’m far from perfect) I have heard a handful of men talk like that over the years Without exception, they’ve been assholes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clinton-v-trump-the-stretch-run-thread/767277.md?page=28)